Samsung Launches $1 Trial Program for iPhone Users

[Genejwalker1987]

Alright after about 24 hours - These are my thoughts about the S6edge+

Overall, its not bad. Android is definitely the bottleneck of the device. With that being said, I have noticed major issues with touch screen sensitivity and recognition. I have to click the same spots 3-4 times for the screen to respond, and I need to swipe down from the top 2-3 times for it to work at all. Extremely annoying.

Device is constantly hot, both when charging and when not charging, with minimal usage.

Screen is absolutely gorgeous.. Indoors. As soon as you take it outside, it is completely washed out. Colors are a bit over saturated, but its extremely vibrant.

Phone is a little large for me personally. The main reason why I did this was to see if I want a 6s+ or just a 6s. I feel the 6s is a good size for me. The bigger screen is nice, but it is a hassle to carry around.

Edge display is kind of gimmicky. I do like the nighttime mode with the time, temp and power level on the side of the screen. Very easy to look at, but other than that I see no use of the edge.

For being a high-grade material phone, it feels really cheap. I don't know if its because the back is plastic and thats what I'm touching the majority of the time, or if its the thinness, but I feel like I could snap it.

Battery life isn't that great. I know I have been using it a lot, but I got about 7 hours of usage yesterday. I can easily pull 8 hours on my iPhone 6 running iOS9. I know the Samsung has a larger screen, but its battery is almost twice the size as the iPhone 6.

Camera is absolute crap IMO. I took plenty of test shots between the Samsung and my iPhone 6. The Samsung's photos are more vibrant and more colorful without a doubt, but as soon as you start to zoom in, its blurry. iPhone on the other hand, wasn't blurry at all. I took about 10 photos with each device, and it was the same result every single time. I don't know if its a faulty camera, but this 16MP camera makes my 8MP camera look amazing.

Overall, by no means would I ever make the switch, but it was nice getting to use Samsung/Android. I constantly rag on it, and its not as bad as what I expected (its been completely updated), but nothing compared to my iPhone. My screen is responsive, doesn't run hot and battery is much better.

That's a glass back brodie

 

[Mlrollin91]

That's a glass back brodie

Then it is the cheapest and thinnest glass every. It feels so insanely cheap in comparison to my iPhone 4.

 

[Genejwalker1987]

Then it is the cheapest and thinnest glass every. It feels so insanely cheap in comparison to my iPhone 4.

Definitely much thinner than the iPhone glass models. Probably to keep the device weight down.

 

[pappy53]

Alright after about 24 hours - These are my thoughts about the S6edge+

Overall, its not bad. Android is definitely the bottleneck of the device. With that being said, I have noticed major issues with touch screen sensitivity and recognition. I have to click the same spots 3-4 times for the screen to respond, and I need to swipe down from the top 2-3 times for it to work at all. Extremely annoying.

Device is constantly hot, both when charging and when not charging, with minimal usage.

Screen is absolutely gorgeous.. Indoors. As soon as you take it outside, it is completely washed out. Colors are a bit over saturated, but its extremely vibrant.

Phone is a little large for me personally. The main reason why I did this was to see if I want a 6s+ or just a 6s. I feel the 6s is a good size for me. The bigger screen is nice, but it is a hassle to carry around.

Edge display is kind of gimmicky. I do like the nighttime mode with the time, temp and power level on the side of the screen. Very easy to look at, but other than that I see no use of the edge.

For being a high-grade material phone, it feels really cheap. I don't know if its because the back is the world's thinnest glass and thats what I'm touching the majority of the time, or if its the thinness, but I feel like I could snap it.

Battery life isn't that great. I know I have been using it a lot, but I got about 7 hours of usage yesterday. I can easily pull 8 hours on my iPhone 6 running iOS9. I know the Samsung has a larger screen, but its battery is almost twice the size as the iPhone 6.

Camera is absolute crap IMO. I took plenty of test shots between the Samsung and my iPhone 6. The Samsung's photos are more vibrant and more colorful without a doubt, but as soon as you start to zoom in, its blurry. iPhone on the other hand, wasn't blurry at all. I took about 10 photos with each device, and it was the same result every single time. I don't know if its a faulty camera, but this 16MP camera makes my 8MP camera look amazing.

Overall, by no means would I ever make the switch, but it was nice getting to use Samsung/Android. I constantly rag on it, and its not as bad as what I expected (its been completely updated), but nothing compared to my iPhone. My screen is responsive, doesn't run hot and battery is much better.

I think that you are the only one on the planet that thinks the camera is bad. It's a great camera. Maybe you got a bad one.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I think that you are the only one on the planet that thinks the camera is bad. It's a great camera. Maybe you got a bad one.

As per my post, then I may have a defective one. I cannot get a single sharp looking photo. As soon as you start to zoom in on the photo it gets completely blurry. There is no way that 10/10 photos on the Samsung compared to my iPhone 6 would be blurry. Again, the Samsung is more colorful and brighter, but the quality isn't there.

 

[Kevsta26]

Im disappointed, I check the site daily also hoping for them to re open it, I would love to try the 6 Plus Edge.

I know, I've been checking the site probably 10 times a day! I also want to try the 6 Edge+ . I love my 6+, but I'd like to try out Android for the first time.

 

[Genejwalker1987]

I know it's off topic. But honest to goodness the best type of device to get a real look at android is a nexus device. No gimmicks. Just stock android.

 

[Mxbzz]

As per my post, then I may have a defective one. I cannot get a single sharp looking photo. As soon as you start to zoom in on the photo it gets completely blurry. There is no way that 10/10 photos on the Samsung compared to my iPhone 6 would be blurry. Again, the Samsung is more colorful and brighter, but the quality isn't there.

Can you confirm that you're shooting at 16mp quality in the camera settings? For some reason mine was set to 4 or 8 MP out of the box. Maybe that's what's hindering your picture quality.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Can you confirm that you're shooting at 16mp quality in the camera settings? For some reason mine was set to 4 or 8 MP out of the box. Maybe that's what's hindering your picture quality.

Yes, I am shooting at 16MP. I even selected 8MP then back to 16MP to see if that would trigger anything.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Got mine in today, I've had it 15 minutes and I've already dropped it. I've owned about most of the iphones and can't say that I've ever really dropped one. This doesn't bode well.
It runs damn hot, while charging at least. Importing from an iphone will put every non-deleted reminder as current.
LOL I got a message to 'Call Dad" by Feb 3rd 2013.
Anyone else remember Samsung saying that we can keep the accessories on the site? Now, on the return instructions it says they want them back.
Now that my ranting is done, The screen is very nice. Or maybe it's the theme. but it's bright and beautiful either way..

One last nit-pick. How the heck do you tell if you have service with this thing?
Okay, one more.. Trying to find the weather the device pinned me in North Hollywood, so they changed my time for me and everything.
Problem is.. I'm in Vermont. A wee distance from Cali.

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I also remember reading that we can keep the accessories (well that they don't need to be returned). I don't care about the charger or the cable, but the headphones are actually quite comfortable and decent. I might call the number and ask if I can keep just the headphones. Not like they can reuse them.

 

[runtohell121]

For my camera comparison, the Note 5 was pretty good. A little more vibrant/saturated, but still looks good and depends on personal preference.
Link to my 5 photo comparison so far. https://www.flickr.com/photos/29160657@N07/sets/72157657857509495/

 

[AnyTechFan]

I also remember reading that we can keep the accessories (well that they don't need to be returned). I don't care about the charger or the cable, but the headphones are actually quite comfortable and decent. I might call the number and ask if I can keep jus the headphones. Not like they can reuse them.

Let me know what you find out, i might do the same thing

 

[LordVic]

Alright after about 24 hours - These are my thoughts about the S6edge+

Overall, its not bad. Android is definitely the bottleneck of the device. With that being said, I have noticed major issues with touch screen sensitivity and recognition. I have to click the same spots 3-4 times for the screen to respond, and I need to swipe down from the top 2-3 times for it to work at all. Extremely annoying.

Device is constantly hot, both when charging and when not charging, with minimal usage.

Battery life isn't that great. I know I have been using it a lot, but I got about 7 hours of usage yesterday. I can easily pull 8 hours on my iPhone 6 running iOS9. I know the Samsung has a larger screen, but its battery is almost twice the size as the iPhone 6.

Camera is absolute crap IMO. I took plenty of test shots between the Samsung and my iPhone 6. The Samsung's photos are more vibrant and more colorful without a doubt, but as soon as you start to zoom in, its blurry. iPhone on the other hand, wasn't blurry at all. I took about 10 photos with each device, and it was the same result every single time. I don't know if its a faulty camera, but this 16MP camera makes my 8MP camera look amazing.

These particular issues makes it sound like you've got a bad phone with some hardware fault actually.

The phone should not be hot when not charging unless you're absolutely running those cores really heavily constantly. day to day usage when not gaming shouldn't be doing that.

But the heat from the constant CPU usage could be whats interfering with your touch sensitivity. the latest Samsung's are supposed to have extremely sensitive touch displays and not having the issues you're reporting.

the Battery life has been tested and rated to well over a day as well for most users, even with the screen

it might also be whats causing your camera issues. The Camera sensor / software in the S6 (and note 5) have been regularly rated best in class. So if you're having consistent issues generating usable photos, again, probably have a bad device. Send it back

 

[mclld]

"but it was nice getting to use Samsung/Android. I constantly rag on it, and its not as bad as what I expected (its been completely updated), but nothing compared to my iPhone. "

Admitted bias so you cant expect people to take you serious. It is fanboyish to constantly rag on something you dont even have experience with previously

 

[VARTV]

Alright after about 24 hours - These are my thoughts about the S6edge+ ...

Have you shot any 4K video?

 

[venom600]

It came with a very short spare USB cord. I have no idea what that was

Did you even read the documentation that came with the phone? It clearly explains what the USB cable is for.

Overall, its not bad. Android is definitely the bottleneck of the device.

It's important to remember that this isn't pure Android. Samsung puts a proprietary interface on top of Android that is the reason for a lot of the issues people encounter. It seems that everyone does, with the exception of Motorola.

 

[Brag]

Doesn't look like you have service. Something looks wrong.

the service indicator is that round circle with the slash through it beside the battery. should look like escalating sized bars. with small lettering telling you what type of service you are on.

you're either in a complete dead zone, or the device you got has bad sim / something else wrong with it

and without Data, you're not going to be able to have your system update it's location (since it can't get any data to do so)

Yeah, I've kinda gotten the hang of it. Why they stuck the service there instead of next to the almost completely empty left side I haven't figured out.
I swapped my sim from my 5S so I can use the micro cell on AT&T and used the phone all day while working. I still can't get the virtual voice mail to work at all. No connection to server.
I have to say if Samsung just finishes copying Apple and sticks iOS on this thing then it'd be perfect.
I like that it tracks my activity, has a heart rate monitor, I even kinda like the ATT drive mode, I didn't realize just how often I check emails while driving. Kinda scary really. It did tick me off when it didn't tell me that someone was calling, while paired through bluetooth.

The thing eats through battery in no time, it's on 15% using it about the same amount as I normally do with my 5S.
running from 7 am to now, 5:30 pm.
Where my 5s is never below 40%. even on days that I'm working 11-14 hours.

The curved screen doesn't seem to be too useful. like others have mentioned, it's kinda gimmicky. Although I do like the color display when someone calls, and the phone is face down. if you don't mind scratching up your screen and all.

Ultimately, the software kills it. Every time I lose service, or the phone randomly thinks I teleported to a new state, [I got detroit, Dinosaur-Nebraska (i didn't know there was a Dino, NE cool), Hollywood again and finally SLC it changed my time. So all my set up meetings and alarms got messed with. not to mention that I end up thinking i should be done with a job two hours ago and that I've got 5 jobs to do before 4pm.
I think I'll send this thing back before the weekend is out. I wish I could swap it out for another model. Oh well, It was nice to test it out, but I'm not going to make the jump.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Have you shot any 4K video?

I have not.

 

[Genejwalker1987]

Yeah, I've kinda gotten the hang of it. Why they stuck the service there instead of next to the almost completely empty left side I haven't figured out.
I swapped my sim from my 5S so I can use the micro cell on AT&T and used the phone all day while working. I still can't get the virtual voice mail to work at all. No connection to server.
I have to say if Samsung just finishes copying Apple and sticks iOS on this thing then it'd be perfect.
I like that it tracks my activity, has a heart rate monitor, I even kinda like the ATT drive mode, I didn't realize just how often I check emails while driving. Kinda scary really. It did tick me off when it didn't tell me that someone was calling, while paired through bluetooth.

The thing eats through battery in no time, it's on 15% using it about the same amount as I normally do with my 5S.
running from 7 am to now, 5:30 pm.
Where my 5s is never below 40%. even on days that I'm working 11-14 hours.

The curved screen doesn't seem to be too useful. like others have mentioned, it's kinda gimmicky. Although I do like the color display when someone calls, and the phone is face down. if you don't mind scratching up your screen and all.

Ultimately, the software kills it. Every time I lose service, or the phone randomly thinks I teleported to a new state, [I got detroit, Dinosaur-Nebraska (i didn't know there was a Dino, NE cool), Hollywood again and finally SLC it changed my time. So all my set up meetings and alarms got messed with. not to mention that I end up thinking i should be done with a job two hours ago and that I've got 5 jobs to do before 4pm.
I think I'll send this thing back before the weekend is out. I wish I could swap it out for another model. Oh well, It was nice to test it out, but I'm not going to make the jump.

To up you understand why the signal is on that side. Android displays notification icons from left to right. So new messages and emails or snapchats, etc. Will use the left side. While ongoing applications use the right. Cell signal, wifi, battery, clock. Those things.

 

[penajmz]

After using the device for a few hours.... What a mess. The OS really ruins it. Everything is all over the place. I'm usually lost. Even the apps aren't the same. Maybe I'm too used to my iPhone.

 

[Juansito]

Yes, I am shooting at 16MP. I even selected 8MP then back to 16MP to see if that would trigger anything.

My camera is the same way. Its like when i take a picture its overly sharpened and when you zoom in its all grainy and stuff. When i take the same picture with my iphone its kinda blurry to an extent but its still better than the S6

 

[pappy53]

According to FedEx tracking, my shipping label was created on 8/23, and nothing since. My order number is in the low 2000's. I'm beginning to think that I will never get it.

 

[euroecua]

I ordered it on 8/21 5:00 am, received a confirmation email and my prepaid card was charged $1, I then did the track by reference and it said my shipping label was created on 8/23, I received a call from them on 8/26 saying they need to update my credit card information because they need a valid credit card to ship the phone, after updating my card info the same day I was charged $1 the next day.

So now I am down $2 and still no phone and if they do ship, it will be 2 day shipping because the label was already created, while others who probably ordered after me are getting overnight shipping. Samsung is fast at charging my cards but when it comes to shipping or informing me about my card issue they take their time.

 

[Christian 5G]

Any way to put tmobile sim into version s6 edge? (so i can get rid of my 5s before the new iPhone).

Will it work?

 

[AndrewR23]

Here are my impressions. I love it. I have the Samsung Galaxy s 6 edge. One thing I've noticed is it keeps saying that someone is trying to modify the settings and to restart the phone. Anyone know how to stop that?

The screen blows away my iPhone 6. It's so so much better in my opinion. The camera. Wow. Way better. And this is a 5.1 inch screen yet it's smaller and feels lighter then my 4.7 inch iPhone. Crazy. The wireless charging is amazing. Tried with my friends.

I've used iPhone since 2007. May end up switching.